LETTER TO ALLEN DULLES FROM ALLAN EVANS

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: May 31, 1961
• Content Type: LETTER

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
THE DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH
WASHINGTON
SECRET
May 31, 1961
You will recall that on April 11th the Intelligence Board discussed the
Department of State's request that it be authorized to make certain NIEs and
SNIEs available under carefully controlled conditions to selected staff members
of the Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA). As you know, IDA is now preparing
a comprehensive study for the Disarmament Administration of the impact on our
national security of various arms control measures, proposals for disarmament,
or actions to reduce the possibility or limit the dangers of war. This study is
due to be completed on June 30th.
The Intelligence Board agreed at that time that the Department could
provide oral briefings on certain NIEs to cleared IDA staff members having a
need to know. The Board also agreed that it would, at a later date, review its
policies regarding the release of estimates to contractors.
Please consider this to be a request for such a review. I would hope we
could take this matter up at an early meeting of the Intelligence Board, say on
June 6th. As a point of departure for this review, I offer the following
proposal:
1. The Intelligence Board should amend USIB-D-39.5/2 of
11/10/59, "Policy Statement on Release of Intelligence to Contractors
of USIB Organizations."
2. Intelligence agencies should henceforth be authorized, on
their own initiative to release NIEs and SNIEs to intelligence contractors
without the need to obtain prior permission of the Intelligence Board
and Member agencies.
3. This authorization is designed to cover all Estimates up to
and including Top Secret; it excludes, however, all Estimates which
contain specially sensitive data referred to in No. 3, item j (3, 8, 9)
of Attachment B to USIB-D-39.5/2.
The Honorable,
Allen Dulles,
Chairman, United States Intelligence Board,
Central Intelligence Agency.
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4. The following special control procedures will apply to releases
of this kind. They are in addition to and complement those already specified in
Item 3 of USIB D-39.5/2, Attachment B.
a. Estimates will at all times remain within the physical
custody of the Member agency. Release will take the form of
visual disclosure whereby properly cleared contractor personnel
may, on a demonstrated "need to know" basis, read Estimates in
Member agency offices.
b. Contractors may not cite NIEs or SNIEs as the source of
data so obtained in any of their studies or reports. Data of this
kind will be attributed only to the Member agency concerned.
The determination of the particular "need to know" is, of course, an
important aspect of the release in this manner of data contained in Estimates.
.I believe that in the present instance, as in similar cases which may confront
other Member agencies, the need to know is clearly evident. IDA's study is
an important element in an across-the-board policy assessment of the highest
national priority. An amendment of this kind would greatly facilitate the task
at hand and in the future.
Sincerely,
Allan Evans
Acting Director
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